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na word of what Russian Defense Ministry says it is reliableHe claims that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian Armies at Pokrovsk, Kostyantnivka and Kupyansk in the east ukraine, Are agitprop.
But Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement from the front line that his country’s fighters “Under pressure” is an understatement.
Ukraine’s top military commander Oleksandr Sirsky told New York Post Russia was concentrating about 150,000 troops on a campaign to capture the city, which is highly prized by Russia.
Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Russian soldiers may have already successfully infiltrated three strategically important cities,
Kupyansk is on of russia Route towards Kharkiv. The other two control the eastern and southern routes to the last remaining Ukrainian Doubts in Donetsk – Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.
Vladimir Putin who have made massive efforts in the battle for Donetsk moscow Already illegally “attached”.
They have paid a heavy price in blood for small territorial gains. At the speed at which Russia is advancing, intelligence sources estimate that it may take more than 100 years for Moscow to capture Ukraine. An estimated 1.5 million people are expected to be killed and injured in Russia by 2022, but Putin’s latest efforts have created a new urgency.
Nevertheless, if Pokrovsk ultimately fell, nothing would remain of this former garrison town.
Just as nothing remains of nearby Bakhmut or Avdeevka, the last significant Russian gains in this terrible war almost two years ago.
These Russian-speaking cities, like Mariupol before them, are the scenes of atrocities Russian speaking citizens Russian leader says Russian military deployed to protect Russian-speaking people from Ukrainian abuses.
moscow Says Ukrainian troops are now trapped in three “circles”. This is giving the “encircled” soldiers there an opportunity to surrender. They are not surrounded. They do not need to surrender, nor will they surrender.
Russia Ukraine’s ability to defend a front line approximately 1,300 km long has been increased. It has launched mock attacks from Zaporizhia in the south To Suma in the far north. But its main focus has been Putin’s obsession with capturing all of Donetsk before any future ceasefire “freezes” the front line.
In the new arena of drone warfare, Russia has moved to adapt just as quickly as Ukraine’s tech-savvy volunteers. Kiev’s forces up and down that front line speak with fearful admiration of Moscow’s forces’ Rubicon unit, highly trained specialist drone operators.
“We can tell when they are in our area because their skills go up. They train people well and when they leave, they leave those skills behind,” said Gray, a lieutenant in a Ukrainian frontline drone unit near Zaporizhia.
The Rubicon Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies – Russia’s response to Ukraine’s establishment of a separate drone force with the Army, Navy and Air Force – has been teamed up with Russian special forces to focus on Kiev’s frontline drone operators.
Scattered across the front, the Ukrainians are able to hold off Russian attacks with a relatively small number of troops at risk. operating from hidden bunkers, their First Person View (FPV) Attack DroneThe bombers and interceptors have enabled Ukraine to rebalance the battlefield where Russian numbers had dominated.
But using Spetsnaz special forces units and drone swarms, Russian commanders have focused efforts on overwhelming Ukrainian pilots in their bases.
These strategies seem to be proving effective. But they also impose heavy costs on Russia’s regular army, which is deployed in cities like Pokrovsk and is vulnerable to Ukrainian drones flying deep into the country.
Ukraine is said to have sent its special forces to the battle of Pokrovsk. If the pattern of previous battles for the eastern towns and cities were repeated, it could take at least a year before they fell and many tens of thousands of Russians could be killed. If they fall.
The scenario behind the Ukrainian front line has been prepared for a fighting retreat by Kiev forces. Thousands of miles of trenches, roadblocks, tank traps and labyrinths of barbed wire have been laid. No doubt, secret mine fields, bunkers for behind-the-line operations and carefully calibrated targeting will make Russia’s next phase another session in the “meat grinder” of Ukraine’s Eastern Front.
Russia’s calculation is that it can overwhelm Ukraine. The Kremlin can keep an unlimited number of troops in the cauldron.
Ukraine’s calculation is that since Moscow already has to motivate troops with $3,000 per month salaries, the pool of willing soldiers is drying up while Ukraine targets the Russian industrial machine by bombing its oil infrastructure.
Moscow is hanging on and Kiev is buying time. The latter is hoping for strategic encouragement from the US or Europe to supply long-range weapons that can reach deep into Russian territory and destroy the Kremlin’s morale and supply lines to Ukraine.
As a senior NATO intelligence officer recently explained: “This is the midpoint of a long war.”